A variety of public health exhibitors were honored for their creative, informative and innovative booths during the Public Health Expo at the 136th APHA Annual Meeting in late October.
The expo, held over four days of the San Diego meeting, featured more than 700 booths and offered visitors a wealth of public health-related information and services. Among the many booths at the meeting were those representing federal health agencies, schools of public health, health technology services, APHA Sections and Special Primary Interest Groups as well as the APHA Student Assembly.
The District of Columbia Department of Health booth took home first prize during the 136th APHA Annual Meeting in October.
Photo courtesy EZ Event Photography
Stata Corp’s booth tied for second place in the new commerical booth category in October.
Photo courtesy EZ Event Photography
As in previous years, a 14-member Exhibitor Advisory Council chose the winners of the annual Best Booth Contest.
In the APHA Sections category, the prizes went to:
the Maternal and Child Health Section, first place;
DisAbility Section, second place; and
Health Administration Section, third place.
APHA’s DisAbility Section booth won a second place prize in the APHA Sections Best Booth Contest category.
Photo by Teddi Dineley Johnson
In the nonprofit, one- to two-booth category, the winners were:
the Spark Programs, first place;
the National Minority AIDS Council, East Tennessee State University and Bellevue University, which all tied for second; and
Cancer Control Planet; American Heart Association; Servicios de Salud de Sonora; University of Georgia; and the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, which all tied for third.
In the new nonprofit booth category, prizes went to:
Hohm Press, first place;
Against The Odds, second place; and
Riverside County Department of Public Health and Get Healthy Promos, which tied for third.
In the commercial one-to two-booth category, the winners were:
Booz Allen Hamilton and Integrated Warehousing Solutions, which tied for first;
Thomson Reuters, Westat Inc., Lewin Group and Infectious Awareables Inc., which all tied for second; and
Aseptico Inc., Elsevier Inc., Wellsource Inc. and Heyltex Corporation, which tied for third place.
In the new commercial booth category, the prizes went to:
GeaCom Inc., first place;
Stata Corp and Trane, which tied for second; and
ORL Productions, third place.
Other awards were:
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, first place, nonprofit three or more booths;
District of Columbia Department of Health, first place, nonprofit island booths;
Merck and Company Inc., first place, commercial three or more booths; and
ESRI and Kaiser Permanente, which tied for first in the commercial island booth category.
“The annual Best Booth Contest is always a fun way to highlight the year’s most creative and lively expo participants,” said Lynn Schoen, APHA’s exhibits manager.
For more information on APHA Annual Meeting booths, e-mail lynn.schoen{at}apha.org or call 202-777-2479. To access a map of the San Diego Public Health Expo, visit www.apha.org/meetings.
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